White House defends Biden after Nikki Haley attack on older candidates | USA TODAY

The White House defended President Joe Biden’s age after Nikki Haley called for anyone over the age of 75 to take a mental competency test.

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Nikki Haley, the South Carolina governor and former U.N. ambassador, formally launched her campaign a call for “mandatory mental competency tests for politicians over 75 years old.”

That line was surely aimed at pleasing Republicans who’ve convinced themselves that 80-year-old President Joe Biden is senile. But it was also a shot at 76-year-old former President Donald Trump, a candidate as well, and at a sizable swath of the GOP’s most reliable base of voters.

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